Duplicating Streams of Audio with Python

07 December 2011

This morning I made a python script that uses pyaudio to read from one audio device and pipe to the next, I call it replicate.py.

This is a really old problem for me, ever since I first had 4.1 speakers and winamp only played on the front 2. Nowadays I just want VLC to play on both the TV and the computer speakers without switching between audio output modules in the preferences or fiddling with the default audio output in Windows 7.

PyAudio was really nice and easy to use, I just wish asynch io was added so I could lower the latency a bit as I'm getting 240 ms right now which is very far from perfect.